On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:55, Wayne Wilson wrote: > Does open source provide a way for the western worlds programmers to > deal with IT oursourcing?
Of course it does. Outsourcing is a tool used almost exlusively by large corporations. Large corporations cannot survive without foul tricks like market distortion, monopolies, legislative influence (lobbying) AND: "intellectual property". This is so because their administrative overhead is so unproportionally more expensive as compared to small business that they need such manipiulated environment to thrive. Defeat this IP nonsense, and you defeat the large corporations, and you will once again make small business - especially in IT !!! - viable. Every line of FOSS code you write and release is a step towards freedom and prosperity for *individuals*. Horst
